Medicare is often seen as a universal safety net, a guarantee for older Americans that after decades of work — and having ...

Terminally ill adults in Illinois may have the option to take life-ending medication prescribed by a physician, but there are ...

A Memoir spoke of her cancer diagnosis and impending death. Now it’s on stage with the Melbourne Theatre Company.

Over the last 25 years, the rights of terminally ill patients to determine how they die have expanded considerably,” writes ...

A study by researchers at Brown University and Harvard University shows that a rising premature death rate means Medicare isn’t helping as many people as intended.

Steve Connelly has mountain-climbed, biked, rafted, surfed, skied and taken on any pulse-quickening challenge he could find, earning about 27 fractures for his efforts. At 58, he is facing the first ...

"Mami, are we going to die?" my 4-year-old asked during our afternoon walk yesterday. My kids talk a lot about death and dying, so I didn’t pay much attention to his question. I offered some ...

In her book, ‘The Rest Is Silence,’ Joanna Stalnaker offers an intimate portrait of Enlightenment philosophers as they faced ...